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NORFOLK, VA. 



The Jamestown Expo.^ 

^- '^ *** V/ILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING 
*-,-. "T.-, DISTINCTIVE ATTRACTIONS 



The greatest naval rendezvous in history. 

The first international submarine races. 

Unique night harbor illumination. 

Spectacular international parades. 

Prize drills by the regiments of all count 

The largest motor boat regatta ever held, 

Yacht races, in which all nations will coi 

Field athletic contests between recognii 
pions. 

More naval and military bands than wert 
fore gathered together. 

A colonial metropolis; buildings will be bes 
of single architectural type 

Monitor and Merrimac fight 

The highest tower ever erected in Amei 
in the world. 

The largest parade ground on the earth. 

An exact reproduction cf the Merrimac ar 
duel. 

Stupendous pyrotechnic reproductions of v 

Complete "Arts and Crafts Village." 

A profound historic exhibit. 

Industrial demonstrations, showing com 
cesses. 

Sea bathing at the borders of the groundL 

Great technical Government exhibits. 

"Wireless telegraphic stations. 

Life-saving corps actually operating. 

A great coal palace. 

An immense forestry exhibit 

Dirigible air vessels for commercial use. 

An enclosed sea basin, with an area of,' 
square feet. * ' 

A complete Japanese village. 

An entire Tyrol community. 

A museum of war and naval relicSo 

An exact reproduction of old Jamestown, 

A complete educational exhibit. 

Immense convention halls, palaces for exb 
of history, and great buildings for displaying 
tion of industrial arts, transportation and manv 
ill. 



WHERE 

DELEGATE, SAILOR, 

SOLDIER, DIPLOMAT, 

Will Meet in 1907 



During the year 1907a great International 
Military, Naval, Historical and Industrial 
Exposition will be held on and near the 
waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia, in com- 
memoration of the three hundredth anniver- 
sary of the first permanent English settle- 
ment at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. 

The Jamestown Ter- centennial Exposition 
will differ distinctively from other Exposi- 
tions, as it will haVe a great international 
naval rendezvous and military encampment, 
to which invitations have been extended by 
the President of the United States. Many 
countries have accepted and will not only 
participate in the naval and military features 
but will also make industrial displays as well. 

During ordinary times the vicinity border- 
ing on Hampton Roads, so famous in history, 
possesses sufficient attractions to warrant its 
selection as a meeting place, while during the 
Exposition period its natural advantages will 
be wonderfully augmented. 

These facts, coupled with its wonderful 
transportation facilities, located within 
twenty-four hours' ride of more than half 
of the population cf the United States, makes 
it an exceedingly attractive place in which to 
hold conventions and special meetings. 

The following pages are devoted to a de- 
scription of a few selected from the many 
points of interest that cluster around the 
cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News 
and Old Point Comfort. For further infor- 
mation, address 

THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. 

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. 



The Tidewater Cities. 

Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, 
Hampton and Old Point Comfort, the Expo- 
sition Cities, are located on the shores of 
Hampton Roads, within twenty minutes' ride 
of the Exposition grounds by rail and water. 

The City of Norfolk. 

Geographical situation and the fortunes of 
war have combined to give Norfolk promi- 
nence. The site of Norfolk was close to the 
strongest currents of colonial, revolutionary 
and secessional Activity. The first white 
men known to have visited the City of 
Norfolk were members of an expedition dis- 
patched to America by Sir Walter Raleigh in 
1585. "Norfolk Towne" was founded on 
the 16th of August, 1682. In the early 
chronicles it is related that a stockade was 
built to protect the town against Indian at- 
tacks. The Norfolk of to-day is replete with 
historic and reminiscent features. It has in 
the Norfolk Academy one of the finest Doric 
specimens extant. This building is one hun- 
dred years old. The most historic structure 
in the town is old St. Paul's Church, erected 
in 1739, twice fired on by the British, and 
still retaining imbedded in its walls a shell 
fired by Lord Dunmore's fleet, January 1, 
1776. Norfolk is surrounded by interesting 
fortifications, ancient churches and other 
buildings. It is cosmopolitan; a good place 
to live in and a good place in which to make 
a living. It has beautiful residences and 
blocks of magnificent business houses, mod- 
ern hotels and unequalled transportation fa- 
cilities. 



Portsmouth. 

Opposite the city of Norfolk, separated 
by the Elizabeth River, is the busy city of 
Portsmouth, noted for its commercial and 
social activity. Beautiful homes and modern 
business houses testify to its worth. Near 
the city is the Norfolk I^favy Yard, which 
was burned and blown up by the Federal 
troops in 1862 and rebuilt by the Confeder- 
ates. There are immense, dry docks, ma- 
chinery shops of all kinds useful in ship 
construction, barrapks and parade grounds. 
Besides the sailors from the ships and the 
marines who are quartered here, 3,000 men 
find steady employment in the yard, which 
has probably cost over $20,000,000. The 
great United States Naval Hospital, where 
aged and disabled Jackies of the Navy are 
treated at the goverment's expense, is not 
far distant. Portsmouth was founded under 
its present name in 1753. 

Newport News. 

Newport News has* the greatest shipbuild- 
ing plant in the country. Here many battle- 
ships, cruisers, torpedo boat destroyers and 
submarines have been built. The yard has 
the largest dry dock in the New World. A 
visitor may see ships in all stages of con- 
struction. This ship yard has cost about 
$15,000,000, and as a permanent exhibit 
annually draws thousands of visitors. In 
addition to its monetary cost, it has a 
patriotic value which cannot be expressed in 
figures. It was off Newport News that the 
men from Jamestown sighted Lord Dela- 
ware's ships when he came to Virginia ill 




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1610 and saved the colony. Newport News 
lies just across from the Exposition g-rounds 
where the James River empties into Hamp- 
ton Roads. 



Hampton. 



Hampton was the Indian village, Kecoug-h- 
tan, when the English came to America. It 
is the oldest continuous settlement of Eng- 
lishmen in the New World and is the reposi- 
tory of many historic treasures. One among" 
many is St. John's Church, the oldest public 
building in the tqwn, said to be the third 
oldest church in the State. The Pembroke 
Farm nearby is noted for its curious ancient 
monuments of black marble. Hampton has 
the first free school established in America, 
the Symmes-Eaton. This beautiful city is 
located on Hampton Roads, just across from 
the Exposition grounds. 



Commerce and Navigation. 

The commercial features of the Tidewater 
Cities should not be overlooked. We have 
here a great jobbing center and wholesale 
district possessing ramifications which ex- 
tend throughout the entire South. The chief 
coaling station of the United States Navy is 
located here. This is the first lumber port of 
the South, the second coal port of the coun- 
try, the fourth cotton port and one of the 
greatest exporting points for miscellaneous 
commodities. Its merchants are public 
spirited business men and to their enterprise 
and tenacity of purpose is due largely the 
result of bringing about the celebration of an 
event in which every patriotic American is 
heartily interested. 



SIDE TRIPS. 



FOR VISITORS. 

In addition to a larg>e number of beautiful 
suburban resorts, no section in the country 
is so well supplied with attractive and historic 
points of interest in its immediate vicinity. 

Old Point Comfort. 

Old Point Comfort, known as Fortress 
Monroe, orig-inally^ a pallisaded fort of the 
first settlers, planned in 1614 and fortified 
a few years later. Here is to be seen Fort- 
ress Monroe, the largest and best equipped 
fortress in America and chief artillery 
station , of the United States Government, 
and might properly be called a school for 
the army and navy. With the exception of 
Gilbraltar it is perhaps the greatest fortress 
in the world, possessing the longest line of 
fortification. With its great disappearing 
guns and modern machinery of war it stands, 
sentinel-like, in plain view of the Exposition 
grounds, separated only by six miles of 
water. Old Point Comfort is located just 
across Hampton Roads, from Jamestown 
Exposition Grounds. 

The Rip- Raps. 

The Rip-Raps, or Fort Wool, a built-up 
island lying between Fortress Monroe and 
the Exposition grounds, consists of a fine 
granite fort, earthworks within and with- 
out, carrying immense disappearing guns, 

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having cost the Government already 
$16,000,000 to produce. This Fort over- 
looks and commands the entrance to the 
Chesapeake Bay. 



Yorkt 



own. 



At Yorktown where Lord Cornwallis sur- 
rendered to the Continental Army is a fine 
monument dedicated to't.he soldiers who won 
the victory of l^'Sl, and there is another 
monument to mark the exact spot of the 
surrender. There stands the first Custom 
House ever ope,ned in the United States; 
the Moore house on Temple Farm, where are 
the ruins of the old church built in 1660; 
there is the cave in which Cornwallis took 
refuge during the bombardment of the place, 
and the old Nelson House upon which 
Thomas Nelson who was in Washington's 
army, knowing that British officers were 
housed in his residence, begged the Conti- 
nentals to fire, and offered a reward for 
each shot that hit the mark. On the Pam- 
unky River, not far from Yorktown, there 
stands the White House, which is a repro- 
duction of the one in which Washington was 
married in 1759, and occupies the same 
site. On the ridge of Ware Creek not far 
from the White House is an old stone house 
which was mentioned in Smith's History of 
Virginia, and was built by the Jamestown 
settlers as a place of retreat in case of an 
Indian uprising. Nearby is the well-known 
Powhatan's chimney. 

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Ocean View. 

Ocean View is located on the Chesapeake 
Bay within range of the monster guns of 
Fortress Monroe and Fort Wool, popularly 
known as the Atlantic City of the South, 
hardly two miles from the Exposition grounds, 
the point at which the Federal soldiers 
landed during the Civil War, and one of the 
finest bathing and fishing resorts at any in- 
terior salt water resort in the country. A 
short distance from Ocean View, on a neck 
of land known as Willoughby Spit, overlook- 
ing the Exposition grounds, is the home cf 
the Hampton Roads Yacht Club, which will 
be a central point of interest during the 
yachting races that will be held in the sum- 
mer of 1907. 



Cape Henry. 



Cape Henry, where the English first disem- 
barked in 1607, a stone tablet now has sup- 
planted the old wooden cross raised by the 
first settlers to mark the spot where the 
adventurers landed on American soil. It is 
easily reached by trolley or rail— has two 
great lighthouses, one dating from 1690, 
the other completed in the latter part of the 
nineteenth century. Back from the shore 
are mountainous sand dunes. 

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Virginia Beach. 



A few miles further down the Atlantic 
coast and thirty minutes from Norfolk by 
trolley and rail, is famous Virginia Beach, 
with its great seaside hotels, the mecca of 
summer excursionists and seaside sojourners, 
the best and safest sur'f bathing- on the At- 
lantic coast where tens of thousands annually 
enjoy the delightful ocean breezes. The 
waters of the Gulf Strea:m sweep this beach, 
thus giving the resort a temperature not 
enjoyed by beadhes in the North. 



Jamestown Island. 



Of equal interest is the trip up the historic 
James River on the way to Richmond. At 
Jamestown where the first permanent English 
settlement was made, can be seen the ruined 
tower and the old graveyard with its historic 
tombs and inscriptions. Excavations at many 
points on the island have disclosed most inter- 
esting relics. The foundations of the govern- 
or's mansion and the House of Burgesses have 
been laid bare. The old powder magazine, 
partly submerged, may be seen. The ruins 
of the old Ambler mansion are there, and the 
monument recently authorized by the United 
States Government, to cost $50,000, will be 
erected by 1907 and unveiled then. Along 
this river are the finest examples of colonial 
architecture in America. The peninsula, 
between the James River and the York River, 
has been the scene of more bloody conflicts 
than have occurred on any territory of similar 
size in the New World. 

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Around Hampton Roads. 

In addition to these points of interest there 
are many side trips that can be taken. A 
trip on the Chesapeake Bay is always of 
vast interest. Here the great boats, veritable 
traveling hotels, equippeid luxuriously, ply 
their daily trip between Baltimore, Washing- 
ton and intermediate points. In the vicinity 
of the Jamestown Exposition site, nature and 
man have combined to create a territory 
supremely attractive. If the visitor is unable 
to spare the time required to make these 
special trips, he may take an hour or two's 
cruise around the harbors of Norfolk, Ports- 
mouth, Newport News and Old Point Com- 
fort, passing the scene of naval encounters 
in the colonial times when the English were 
at war with Holland and France, where our 
sailors met the British in the Revolutionary 
and 1812 Wars, and where the Monitor and 
the Merrimac had their great battle for su- 
premacy, marking the epoch from which 
dates the revolution of the fighting ships of 
the nations of the world. Beautiful Hampton 
Roads, the most magnificent roadstead ex- 
tant, washes the shores of the cities surround- 
ing the Exposition grounds and presents at 
all times to the spectator a kaleidoscopic 
view that stimulates patriotism and excites 
one round of intense interest and pleasure. 
From the Virginia Capes to the end of Tide- 
water, and beyond, man has supplemented 
nature, and grim war has given historic 
interest. 

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Old-Time Virginia Hospitality in 
the Cities Beautiful. 

The native Virginia element still predomi- 
nates in the population, insuring- to the visitor 
a certainty of old Virginia hospitality, a fac- 
tor by no means negligible in considering a 
convention point. Not less than 40 miles 
of asphalted streets will be laid in the next 
year. The communities are all preparing to 
present a holiday appearance and every 
main highway cind artery in the cities bor- 
dering on Hampton Roads is being put into 
the very finest and most attractive condi- 
tion so that visitors will be impressed, not 
only with the looks of the streets, but with 
the ease of locomotion or transportation 
through them. 

Hotel Accommodations. 

For the convenience of visitors the James- 
town Exposition Company will maintain a 
bureau which will have in hand the question 
of hotel accommodations. This bureau will 
assist delegates and visitors in obtaining 
satisfactory accommodations at reasonable 
prices. The Hampton Roads Section con- 
tains at present from fifteen to twenty rep- 
resentative, well-equipped public hotels, 
many of which are of world-renowned rep- 
utation. There are twice that number of 
minor hostelries with capacity of from 100 
to 200 guests. In addition to which over 
300 well-equipped and commodious boarding 
and rooming houses have been listed with 

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the bureau. A vast number of cottages at 
Virginia Beach, Ocean View, Willoughby 
Beach, Pine Beach, Buckroe Beach, etc., 
will add to the accommodation facilities. 
Thousands of private dwellings will be 
opened to the public by the hospitable people 
of Tidewater Virginia. Many new hotels 
are being built and others projected. Among 
the largest is the Inside Inn, located on the 
Exposition grounds, with a capacity for 
2,000 guests. The larger hotels, in addition 
to every other modern convenience, are 
equipped with convention halls for the free 
use of guests. These hotels are in position 
to give special rates to convention delegates 
and will reserve space in advance for large 
bodies. 




SCOPAL CHURCH AT SMITHFIELD. THIS EDIFICE DATES FROM THE MIDDLE 
)F THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND ITS GRAVEYARD CONTAINS THE RE- 
MAINS OF MANY SOLDIERS WHO WERE IN BACON'S REBELLION. 



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A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW. 



Jamestown Ter-Centennial 
Exposition. 



On May 13, 1607, three boats anchored 
off a peninsula which jutted into Powhatan's 
River, and there set up a stockaded place of 
defense, which they called James Fort. One 
hundred and five settlers were left by the 
ships, among these was John Smith, a won- 
derful g-enius and adventurer, a man destined 
to carry the infant colony through perilous 
trials. 

Smith and his men and those who followed 
them made out of the fort a town which they 
called James City; and from James City 
grew Virginia, and from Virginia, these 
United States. 

The Exposition will celebrate in 1907 the 
300th anniversary of the Nation's beginning. 

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AUDITORIUM AND CONVENTION HALL ON EXPOSITION GROUNDS. 
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR 3000 PERSONS IN THE MAIN HALL. 
THERE ARE IN ADDITION 17 SMALLER HALLS FOR CONVENTION 
AND COMMITTEE ROOMS. THE SEATING CAPACITY OF THESE IS 
FROM 50 TO 150. THE BUILDING IS A PERMANENT BRICK AND 
CONCRETE STRUCTURE, EQUIPPED WITH ALL MODERN CON- 
VENIENCES. 



Temperature. 



Tidewater Virginia is a wonderfully favored 
spot during the summer months. The climate 
of this region is pleasant winter and summer. 
The extremes of temperature vary less from 
the average than in any other section of the 
Atlantic. Malarial diseases do not originate 
near Hampton Roads,, and sufferers from 
such troubles find relief here. Humidity is 
not excessive and the breezes which blow 
continuously are rarely blustery. For a 
period of ten years the United States 
Weather Bureau gives an average sum- 
mer temperature of 77.4; an autumn 
temperature of 60.4; a mean average of 
69 degrees Fahrenheit. The delightful cli- 
mate is due chiefly to its geographical location, 
having the advantages of ocean breezes and a 
most intricate series of inland water courses, 
bays and rivers. 



Population. 



The population of the Tidewater cities of 
Virginia is cosmopolitan, due largely to its 
increase in population from the immigration 
of progressive settlers, home-builders and 
investors, who are rapidly adding to the 
wealth and importance of the communities. 
The gain in population during the last decade 
was over 100 per cent and nearly 300 per 
cent in the last twenty years. The popula- 
tion of the Exposition Cities in 1900 was 
185,000. A careful estimate and census 
recently made by the commercial and civic 
organizations indicate an increase of fully 
one-third in the last six years, so that the 
present number of inhabitants is no doubt in 
excess of 250,000 persons. 

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Geographical Position, 

The Jamestown Exposition will be located 
mid distant between tlie extreme of north 
and couth on the Atlantic Coast The seg- 
ment of a circle with a 515 mile radiut; 
shows that there are 21,000,000 peoplf; 
within this distance of the Exposition; while 
a circle having- a 525 mile radius shows 
39,000,000, or more than half the pop- 
ulation of the United States. The formei-^ 
distance is twelve hours' ride — ^the latter^ 
twenty-four. This density of immediatf- 
population, combined . with the excellent 
transportation facilities both^ by land and! 
water, will render the exposition cities ac- 
cessible to a l&,rger number of people thaE 
any previous exposition site. 

Site of the Exposition, 

Within twenty minutes* ride of the cities oi 
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hamp«^ 
ton and Old Point Comfort. Is reached bf 
excellent trolley lines and water craft of 
every description. Beautiful boulevard 
drives add to ease of access to the grounds 



Transportation Facilities, 

^The Jamestown Exposition is reached bf 
eight great trunk lines of railway and fivg 
short lines. There are four trans-Atlantie 
steamers and three coast lines; four Chesa- 
peake Bay lines, four river lines and three 
river and canal lines. The railroads wiH 
provide for special trains for Exposition 
crowds, while the steamship companies will 
double their capacity during the Expositions 
and will shortly place in service a, number of 
large vessels recently built in anticipation c^ 
the heavy travel. The transportation com" 
panies have given assurance that an ex- 
ceedingly low rate will prevail from all pointt 
in the United States. 




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